User:DannyRogers800

Hello everyone!

As you may have realized just by clicking on my username, I quite enjoy writing. There must be hundreds of words of information about me on this page, some nearly interesting, some nearly humorous, and all confidently worthless. In short, I have been editing here for one and a half years, many of which have been spent attempting to craft good and featured articles. My interests are all over the place, but music consistently crops up.

And, most importantly—far more important than anything else I have to say—I believe we should keep Wikipedia a kind, gentle community. Besides vandals, all editors here are working to ensure everyone a reliable source of information, in return for little social recognition and no pay. They mean well. Every attack or insult thrown at someone presumes malice on their end, which can hardly be bred on a site devoted to improving educational access. And if someone promotes hatred by hurling an attack, responding with an attack only doubles that hatred. This is the foremost, and only, dogma I follow on Wikipedia, having once disparaged a fellow editor who went on to guide me through one of my editing projects.

History on Wikipedia

See the main page on my history, unless you value your time.

This chart misrepresents my editing efforts during the summer of 2024, as back then, I would pile many edits into one big edit. Furthermore, very minor edits such as altering article importance assessments count as much as huge additions of information, which can also give a false impression of my activity. Still, charts are fun.

My brief and bland life on Wikipedia began in January 2024. Then, I was a sixth form student studying English language and literature. My first efforts were two translations of English articles into Maltese for my local Wikipedia: "Hunters' Lodges" and "Camptown Races", both of which remain unfinished. I soon migrated to the English Wikipedia. The first English article I altered was "Camptown Races", a product of my fixation with American folk music. I then moved onto 4'33", which I overhauled and intended to bring to good article or perhaps featured article status. The efforts of Tim riley, the late Brianboulton, and company into refurbishing Wikipedia's coverage of classical music, composers, and opera certainly inspired me, and, admittedly, competition did play a role. I would continue to take up lengthy editing projects, especially starting from the summer of 2024. My first was "Henry Clay Work". In late 2025, I started participating in peer reviews for featured article candidacies and good article nominations; in other words, I began interacting with Wikipedia's community. I consider Wikipedia my main pastime, as it combines two of my greatest, lifelong passions: writing and research. My topics of interest are sharply varied, ranging from music and poetry to journalism and philosophy. All in all, however, music is the primary one. In the summer of 2025, I held my time to such a low estimate that I created dozens upon dozens of custom userboxes, which have since been purged from my page. You may see them here, or not. I often upload files on the Commons, mostly photos of the Maltese isles either taken by myself or my friend Christian.

The user name DannyRogers800, which I coined in 2021 for some other account, references a Youtuber I watched at the time, Danny Gonzalez, and a major character in a novel I had read for a school assignment, Mr. Rochester. I didn't like the novel much, but the surname Rochester must have left an impression; I simplified it to Rogers. There is no significance to the number 800.

Projects

There are some more articles to which I've added a lot of words or lent a lot of time, but these are the ones that matter to me.

• Hunters' Lodges: The first Wikipedia article I ever edited and the first I created (January 2024)
• "Camptown Races": The first article I edited on the English Wikipedia (January 2024)
• 4'33": My first major editing efforts on Wikipedia as well as the first vital article I tinkered with (February 2024)
• "Kingdom Coming" (June–July 2024)
• Henry Clay Work: My first serious project on Wikipedia, the first biography I edited, and the first article I nominated for peer review (June–July 2024; August 2025; October 2025; August 2026)
• C. M. Cady: The first article I created on the English Wikipedia (July 2024)
• "Marching Through Georgia": My first good article and the first article I brought to featured article candidacy (September 2024–February 2025; August–November 2025; August 2026; October–November 2026)
• Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign: The first non-music related article I revamped as well as the first related to a living person or current affairs (March–May 2025)
• Jonathan Swan: The first biography of a living person I reworked (May 2025; July–December 2025)
• Herbert Morrison: The first vital article I nominated for good article status (July 2025; November–December 2025)
• "The Lion Sleeps Tonight": My first featured article, and probably the article I've edited the most (July–November 2025; March–April, August–September 2026)
• "Come Home, Father" ((July 2024); August 2025; November 2026)
• Pietru Caxaro: The first article related to my homeland, Malta, I overhauled (September 2025)
• Herostratus (October 2025; March 2026; October 2026)
• Kevin MacLeod (October 2025)
• "Her Majesty" (October–December 2025)
• "Wild Honey Pie" (November–December 2025)
• Godfrey Baldacchino (June 2026; October–November 2026)
• "Polythene Pam" (July–August 2026; October–November 2026)
• "Grafted into the Army" (August 2026; November 2026)
• "How Do You Sleep?" (October–November 2026)
• "Words of Love" (November 2026–)

Short autobiography

I have passed all eighteen years of my brief vacation in Malta, a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean. Growing up, I lived off non-fiction books and Hanna-Barbera cartoons and fathered numerous short story characters. I wasn't a sociable, outdoors person but neither was I an active citizen of the internet, being old enough to dodge an overwhelmingly digitized upbringing. A capable student, my main subjects in secondary school were chemistry and biology, although in sixth form I opted for English and Maltese. Now at university, I am studying political philosophy and sociology. Consistency isn't my middle name, it seems. I'm also unsure of what will become of my professional life, assuming I will earn one in this day and age.

As for interests, I spend much of my free time reading about any topic that comes to mind. Philosophy comes first, although politics, eighteenth and nineteenth-century Western history, and poetry occupy me as well. There was a time when I thought of little else besides Emperor Donald. I also translate my reading into blogs on a quiz site, which is the closest I come to being useful to society. Above all else, however, I enjoy music, with the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Huddie Ledbetter, the Seekers, Frédéric Chopin, and Pete Seeger being my favorite artists and among my most compelling muses. I also hold classical philosophers in high regard, especially the placid Epicurus and the cynical Diogenes, as well as the most honest thinker in recent times, George Carlin. If I had to change one thing about the world, I would present every student and every worker with a copy of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.